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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek σοφῐστής (sophistḗs).
Pronunciation
Noun
sophistēs m (genitive sophistae); first declension
- a sophist
Declension
First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).
Descendants
References
- “sŏphistes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- SOPHISTÆ in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “sophistēs”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sŏphistēs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,458/2.
- “sophistēs” on page 1,792 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “sophista”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 975/2
- sophista in Ramminger, Johann (2024 November 5 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016